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Founder, Managing Partner, Professor - Focused on finance, strategy, entrepreneurship

Investment Professional - Registered Investment Banking Agent with Series 22, 63, and 82 licenses

Clean Energy Expert - Specialties in solar power, energy storage, electric vehicles, and green building

Connector and Catalyst - Top 10% most viewed LinkedIn profiles; Speaker at national and global conferences

Global Player - Experience in 20 countries, plus language abilities in Spanish, Japanese, and Creole

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founder & managing partner

IronOak Energy provides sell-side (raising capital), buy-side (sourcing investment opportunities), and strategic advisory (due diligence, research) for the clean energy sector. Our core team and broader Brain Trust is comprised of PhDs, finance and economics professionals, policy and legal experts, entrepreneurs, and professors. We provide thought leadership via blogs, newsletters, and speaking at national and international conferences.

All securities services required to be performed by a registered broker-dealer are offered through Burch & Company, Inc., 4151 N. Mulberry Drive, Suite 235, Kansas City, MO 64116, member FINRA/SIPC. Burch & Company, Inc. and IronOak Energy, LLC are not affiliated entities.

former director | Senior aDVISER

Cherokee is an environmentally focused investment company that has raised over $2 billion in private equity funds and, separately, founded a number of environmental businesses and invested in over 80 startups and venture funds in the past 29 years. I provide expertise regarding innovation and sustainability to support strategic relationships and new ventures and also co-managed the Cherokee-McDonough Challenge, a competition and accelerator program for high impact environmental startups.

FACULTY

Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, with over 100 faculty, at the nation's 7th best university (US News), is one of the world’s "premier schools for the study of environmental science and policy." I teach about business and strategy related to green real estate development and clean energy via the Duke Environmental Leadership (DEL) executive masters program.

founder

The Invest for Impact Academy provides online courses, business mentorship, and executive education focused on harnessing the power of business and finance to create positive environmental and social impacts.

FACULTY

UNC Chapel Hill's Business School is ranked as the 7th best business school in the world on sustainability (Bloomberg Businessweek); the 7th best business school in the world on leadership development (Bloomberg Businessweek); and the 11th best business school in the US (Forbes). I teach via the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and focus on strategy and entrepreneurship related to real estate and clean energy.

FACULTY

The IDB provides executive education to seasoned executives and high-potential performers in the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, and the private sector. The Institute focuses on logistics, technology, life cycle systems, leadership, organizational transformation, strategic studies, stabilization and economic reconstruction. I teach about the importance of energy innovation and entrepreneurship to the US military.

FACULTY

Duke CE, ranked #1 globally by the Financial Times and BusinessWeek in custom executive education, is a global learning and development company that uses innovative and flexible learning methods, processes and educators to help organizations achieve their goals. I focus on corporate sustainability strategy as a way to excel in leadership, new revenue, innovation and risk mitigation.